"My Kind of Love" Dollhouse fanvid

[1ofgloriasjudys]

My first fanvid premiered this weekend at WisCon 37!

Here is the link to the vid for those who missed it and those who would like to watch it again and/or share it with others (password: Echo).

Song: My Kind of Love by Emeli Sandé
Fandom: Dollhouse

Download file here (96MB, zipped)

"My Kind of Love" Dollhouse Vid from Roxanne Samer on Vimeo.

Comments

[1ofgloriasjudys]

Thank you for the feedback! You definitely took away a number of the ideas that I hoped viewers to take away (especially re: collective action). I am impressed considering your unfamiliarity with the show. And I'm glad you asked about Adele, Topher, and the others. Though each has a unique and complicated relationship to the dolls and their eventual resistance, generally they grow to become allies and recognize and regret their contribution to the development of doll technology and its implementation. I think the show does a great job of slowly revealing the structures of power, such that we come to realize that while Adele and Topher have a lot of power in the LA dollhouse they are relatively low on the Rossum Corporation's ladder. Nonetheless, they do have influence, knowledge, and skill sets that are crucial to overthrowing the powers that be. I wanted to show both their complicity in dollhouse's pleasures and their eventual repudiation of it. I thus included personal relations they have with dolls earlier on as well as Topher's eventual breakdown and Adele's role as a leader in the resistance. What I think is so compelling about the show is these characters' various trajectories and transitions, such that we get to experience each of the dolls and dollhouse employees' growing political consciousnesses, which are uneven and tenuous but nonetheless present and ongoing.

[chaila]

Oh interesting! I totally read them in different roles, and was just a bit unsure of whether their roles were changing or what was happening. I hadn't realized that Adele becomes part of the eventual resistance, or the larger corporate thing going on.

[1ofgloriasjudys]

Yeah, I used footage from the episode "The Attic" to structure the vid as a whole (shots of Echo, Sierra, and Victor hooked up to machines in white suits and water), and it's the episode in which Adele is revealed at the end to be covertly orchestrating the beginnings of a collective resistance. We think she sends Echo, Sierra, and Victor to the attic as punishment for their growing resistances to dollhouse tech, but, in fact, she is sending them their to collect intel on Rossum and its vulnerabilities. Echo's line in the vid's final shot is her telling the whole team, assembled for the first time as a group, that she got what Adele sent her in to retrieve. I cut Echo off there so as to give the line a double meaning and convey the strength and fortitude of the collective.